backwards reading

Anon

hi,

on my site i use a song submission script that means someone types in song, author, their name and email and it adds it to a text file using the normal fwrite command. It is read using:

<?
$lines = file("songs.txt");
echo join($lines,"");
?>

Is it possible to store/read the file so that the latest submission is at the top of the page rather than having to scroll down to read it?

Thanks

Rob

Anon

thank you

Anon

you could also read the file into an array and use array_reverse()

-paul
http://xhawk.net

Anon

$lines = file("songs.txt");
$lines[-1] = "new song info\n";
$fp=fopen("songs.txt","w");
fwrite($fp, join($lines,""));
fclose($fp);

I've not tested it, but the negative indexing works in PHP, so that should prepend the latest song to the front of the file. (and dump it back to itself)

Anon

thanks for the help, in the end i just made it so the original contents of the file were read to the variable $old and appended onto the end of the new data $add, then the whole page is updated.

how do you use the rewind command?